Little Monster

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name = Little Monster
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author = Mercer Mayer
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series = Little Monster
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genre = children's books
picture books
publisher = Little Golden Books
release_date = 1977 - current
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Little Monster is an anthropomorphic character created by Mercer Mayer. He looks like a mix of a dinosaur and a dragon. Little Monster first appeared in the 1977 book "Little Monster's Word Book", but many characters in the Little Monster series were first introduced in the 1974 book "One Monster After Another" and the 1976 book "Professor Wormbog in Search for the Zipperump-A-Zoo". Little Monster usually has his pet Kerploppus by his side in the series.

elected bibliography

For a more complete list of Little Monster related books see the bibliography of Mercer Mayer. All of the following are by Mercer Mayer unless otherwise noted:
*"Little Monster's Word Book" (1977) ISBN 0-307-65766-3
*"Little Monster's Alphabet Book" (1978) ISBN 0-307-61847-1
*"Little Monster's Counting Book" (1978) ISBN 0-307-61844-7
*"Little Monster's Neighborhood" (1978) ISBN 0-307-61849-8
*"Little Monster at School" (1978) ISBN 0-307-61845-5
*"Little Monster at Home" (1978) ISBN 0-307-61846-3
*"Little Monster at Work" (1978) ISBN 0-307-13736-8
*"Little Monster's Bedtime Book" (1978) ISBN 0-307-61848-X
*"Little Monster's You Can Make It Book" (1978) ISBN 0-307-15802-0
*"Little Monster's Mother Goose" (1979) ISBN 0-307-13742-2
*"Little Monster's Scratch and Sniff Mystery" (1980) ISBN 0-307-13546-2

Partial list of recurring characters and species in the series

*Little Monster (a.k.a. Sam Monster, Little Monster Detective and Chief Inspector)
*Kerploppus (including Kerpy the Kerploppus/Detective Kerploppus)
*Big Sister
*Baby Brother
*Mom
*Dad (AKA Pop)
*Little Laff (AKA one of The Evil Smell Switchers)
*Professor Wormbog
*Trollusk (AKA Stamp Collecting Trollusk)
*Zipperump-a-Zoos
*Emilia Wingbat
*Cut-Up
*Wilber the Bridge Troll
*Jurfus
*Island Joe
*Reginald "Reggie" McCleod
*Doctor Windbag
*Croonies (including Izzabella, Queen of the Croonies and Dr. Croonie)
*Useless Blob
*Sssnake
*Glerns (including Little Glern of the Sea and Great Glern of the Sea)
*Grithix (including the Bombanat-Collecting Grithix and Little Monster's schoolteacher Mr. Grithix)
*Silly Thing
*Sneedle
*Yalapappus (including Yally Yalapappus and the Paper-Munching Yalapappus)
*Flying Bombanat (including the Letter Eating Bombanat, and Jerry & Larry Bombanat)
*Blowfat Glowfish
*Verrakisser (including Miss Verrakisser, Little Monster's other teacher)

Links and references

[http://www.littlecritter.com Mercer Mayer's official website]